Italian studio Stefano Boeri Architetti created a pavilion known as Hanji Home at this yr’s Venice Artwork Biennale, with an angular, paper-clad form based mostly on sculptures by Korean artist Chun Kwang Younger.
Hanji Home was designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti for a spot within the backyard of Palazzo Contarini Polignac, a palace overlooking the Grand Canal of Venice.
It’s conceived as an enlarged model of Younger’s crystalline sculptures, which the artist calls “paper tree structure” presently on show within the palace.
The sculptures are created utilizing 1000’s of triangular folded hanji packages – a standard Korean type of paper made by hand from mulberry bushes from which the flag takes its title.
Constructed of laminated veneer lumber (LVL), the crown-shaped Hanji home is outlined by 4 tall, skinny pyramids at every nook. One pyramid is 2 meters greater than the others to interrupt the symmetry of the form and create a “lighthouse”.
Your complete flag is roofed with hanji paper to create a transparent white look, which turns into an nearly translucent lighthouse at evening.
“[The pavilion’s] Kind and identification derive from the traditional, playful however meditative oriental follow of folding paper in an infinite variety of methods, ”stated Stefano Boeri Architetti.
“The form is paying homage to historic origami and tangram practices, in addition to conventional Korean homes based mostly on easy geometric modularity,” he continued.
Along with its visible reference to Younger’s sculptures, the pavilion was designed as an summary reference to the encompassing structure of Venice.
“Your complete pavilion evokes native kinds, from the Gothic cathedral to the particular Renaissance type of the palaces, which make their means from the Grand Canal to the inside of the island,” stated the studio.
Contained in the pavilion is a wood bench the place guests can sit and watch an interactive video set up by Calvin J Lee, which sees digital renderings of Younger’s hanji sculptures projected on the partitions.
The placement and present use of Hanji Home are designed because the “starting of an extended journey” for the pavilion, with the construction designed to be disassembled, relocated or stuffed with completely different makes use of.
“Like a light-weight paper lantern, Hanji Home will be folded, moved and tailored to completely different contexts as simply as a sheet of paper, with numerous transformation prospects but to be explored,” the studio stated.
On the current Milan Design Week, Stefano Boeri Architetti designed a floating forest pavilion for the Timberland shoe model to advertise the concept of re-greening city areas.
Elsewhere, the studio not too long ago accomplished the primary of China’s vertical forest towers, having already constructed examples of tree-covered skyscrapers in Milan and Eindhoven.
The picture is by Guoyin Jiang, except in any other case specified.
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